A:
Most Conventional PCs are designed
and built for Mass Market Consumption.Their most typical applications
are word processing ,Internet browsing ,and basic business and networking
applications..

A DAW ( Digital Audio Workstation ) on the other hand is designed
to manipulate and process huge amounts of digital audio in real time,
which requires a fine balance of all relative component , including
Motherboards, I / O Cards, Hard Drives , etc , to ensure Maximum Performance
and Reliability.

All
of these factors that are taken into account when designing a DAW
, are a non issue in standard commercial mass market PCs. In many
cases you can have an extremely fast PC that will perform very poorly
for digital audio usage, and in many of these cases, no amount of
tuning will give the requiredperformance
due to the choice of motherboards, chipset, hard disk, etc.

Due to the vast variety of audio, video, and PC hardware available,
choosing the right combination of components can be very difficult.
All my systems are based on the culmination of years of experience
building and utilizing specialized PC Based Digital Audio Workstations,
and are designed for Maximum Performance and Reliability.

Gone are the days when merely suffocating the system by closing
off all available access points, encasing hard drives in sleeves
and restricting air flow would be safe enough to maintain reliable
operation.

While some companies are still recommending and utilising some of
these techniques, it is far better to achieve the desired results
by utilising innovative design combined with the available technologies,
than simply continue to blindly maintain out dated and dangerous
short cuts.